Bug 323989 - Workflow for sending emails either A.) Later or B.) Offline is terrible...
Summary: Workflow for sending emails either A.) Later or B.) Offline is terrible...
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.11
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2013-08-25 00:23 UTC by Joe Biden
Modified: 2017-01-07 22:09 UTC (History)
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Description Joe Biden 2013-08-25 00:23:46 UTC
Sometimes I will have a thousand emails to deal with in my inbox.

I will want to quickly go through them, reply, delegate, move, etc.

Often times, I do not want to be connected to the Net, or if I am connected, do not want to send "Right Away". This used to be easy and fluid. I could bind the keystroke to "Send Later" and poof, done.

Now, however, like many things that used to work and be simple in Kmail, are now broken and needlessly complex.

"Send Later" now forces me to deal with a dialog box that makes me select 

A.) "Put in Outbox (duh, this is what I wanted, so why can't I configure this box?)
B.) Schedule it (to me, completely useless, but fine, give me a way to ditch this)
C.) Cancel. (Cancel what? sending the message, editing the message?)

Putting kmail into "Offline" Mode just makes things more complex...

"Send Later" should REALLY be clear now, but it gives you yet another dialog box to deal with, asking if you want to go online. Ok, fine, this gives you a way to turn it off, but this now makes it two-layered...Scheduling the mail will make me go online at that time? This would break the "Offline Mode" and makes no sense.

Please give me some options to turn off all of this thinking for me!

"Offline" should be "Offline until I dang well want to go online".
"Send Later" should have an option to "Pop up annoying options dialog every time I send later?"

I want this to be a fast workflow, and it used to be...now it is annoying and slow, without the option to change it.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 18:03:14 UTC
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
Comment 2 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:09:56 UTC
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.